Yulia Lipnitskaya

Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya (Russian: Ю́лия Вячесла́вовна Липни́цкая, Latinized: Yulia Vyacheslavovna Lipnitskaya, June 5, 1998 -) is a Russian figure skater, born in Yekaterinburg. She was the 2014 European Figure Skating Championships champion and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics gold medalist (team). Lipnitskaya is the youngest women's singles gold medalist in the history of the European Figure Skating Championships. She is also the second youngest gold medalist in Olympic history (15 years and 249 days), six days younger than American Tara Lipinski when she won the women's singles gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Maxi Heber is the youngest gold medalist in Olympic history.